Be forewarned.  I have no idea if most of what I am about to guess at
is true.  In fact, consider it all just speculation.  But at one
time, I did talk to someone that claimed to work in a low level
position at Microsoft.

The early pre-release information on Vista offered the promise of a
replacement for the NTFS file system.  You may vaguely recall that
the entire directory, the files and their contents were supposed to
be indexed like a database for instantaneous searching.

Vista was also supposed to include better and tighter security.  That
may have been implemented, but it was the reason some of us really
disliked Vista.

Vista as an operating system was supposed to be written in the .NET
(dot net) application development platform.  Microsoft worked on this
effort for a long time.  When it failed to work (or maybe simply
failed to achieve the necessary performance,) it was abandoned. 
Since most of the code had to be re-written again, Microsoft didn't
have time to implement the NTFS replacement or some of the other
features that had been promised.

XP came out shortly after ME failed miserably.  It was time for
Microsoft to release something.  I personally don't think they
intended Vista to fail (and allow them the company to be the brunt of
Apples wonderful ads.)  But because it was hurried, and it failed to
live up to the promises, it was what it was.

I used Vista, fairly happily on my main desktop, until last week.  I
did not upgrade to Windows 7.  I did a fresh install.  Windows 7 is
the operating system Vista should have been.  It is almost as good as
I imagine Snow Leopard might be.

Keep in, this is speculation, or is this all just a made up story.

Mark
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